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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Europe's refugee crisis and the coming chaos


Sott.net
Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:00 UTC
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This week on 'Behind the Headlines', your hosts are joined by Harrison Koehli, Sott.net editor and co-host of 'The Truth Perspective' radio show on SOTT Radio Network. We'll be discussing Europe's 'migrant' problem, the public outpouring of support, and what the Powers That Be will do about it.

Tune in for all that and more this Sunday 6th September, 2015, from 2-4pm EST / 7-9pm GMT / 8-10pm CET

Running Time: 02:15:00

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Bullseye

About time: Many now saying responsibility for refugee crisis due to U.S. war policies

Sarah Lazare
Common Dreams
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
refugees greece
© Michael Debets/Pacific/Barcroft Children rest on the ground at Piraeus harbor in Greece.
As refugees are stranded at train stations, attacked by riot police, and killed during the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Europe's failure to address the rising humanitarian crisis is being met with global outrage and sorrow.

Now, many are also looking across the Atlantic to the United States, where observers say key responsibility for the crisis lies—not only because the country is lagging in its humanitarian response, but also because its war policies lie at the root of the ongoing displacement.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said at a press briefing on Thursday that the United States sees no "impending policy changes" in light of the worsening crisis. He indicated the U.S. plan will remain focused on lending assistance from afar while letting EU nations take the lead on confronting the crisis. "There is certainly capacity in Europe to deal with this problem," Earnst said, "and the United States certainly stands with our European partners."

Comment: These people are fleeing their countries because life is simply unlivable, thanks to the U.S./NATO led wars. The ability to destroy everything in it's path is the real meaning of U.S. 'exceptionalism' - and don't expect the psychopaths in charge of the Empire of Chaos to ever take any real responsibility for the devastation they cause.

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Snakes in Suits

Dazed and confused: US State Dept. nervous about 'press reports' of Russian military in Syria


RT
Sun, 06 Sep 2015 15:06 UTC

Western media organizations have recently been making strong claims about Russia's alleged military involvement in Syria, to the point that US Secretary of State John Kerry started calling Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, sharing his concerns and adding more fuel to speculations.

The media frenzy around the suspected Russian military involvement in Syria reignited after President Putin's answer was taken out of context when he was asked to clarify whether Russia is ready to take part in military operations against the Islamic State militants in Syria.

"You know, this is a separate issue and we see what is going on right now. Say, the American aviation is making certain strikes. So far, their efficiency has not been very high, but it is too early to say that we are ready to do it," Putin said.

"However, we are providing Syria with significant support anyway, both in equipment and personnel training, and armaments. We signed major contracts with Syria some five to seven years ago, and we are complying with them in full," President Putin explained, reminding his audience, that on many occasions before, Russia has honored all contracts signed with the Syrian government.

Comment: Toner sure makes the US look completely incompetent in understanding what is going on in Syria.

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Eye 1

Jade Helm blending in: Fake rental trucks reveal hidden military spy rooms

Aaron and Melissa Dykes
Truthstream Media
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
Ryder
© www.thedailysheeple.comIt's what's inside that counts.
Jade Helm's tagline is "mastering the human domain".

We have been told that, in part, this has to do with special operations outfits from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines using covert warfare techniques to infiltrate average American neighborhoods (as mock "hostile environments") and walk "undetected amongst civilian populations" without being noticed by the rest of us. Oh, and it's for "refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat" (emphasis added on the word 'foreign') according to Army Special Operation Command spokesman Mark Lastoria.

Well, here's one way they reportedly have done that.

Mike Lamb, a staff writer for Barstow, California's Desert Dispatch was invited to a small press meeting prior to a joint forcible entry operation training exercise at Fort Irwin National Training Center called Operation Dragon Spear last month. Military vehicles and gear were put on display and the reporters were allowed to take pictures and ask questions.

"What I'm about to share with you is not top secret. But there were U.S. Army special operations soldiers lurking around Barstow, driving down our streets and we didn't even know it," he wrote.

Comment: Ryder is a curious factor. Connections or merely coincidences...?

Ramzi Yousef, who executed the 1993 WTC bombing, used a Ryder Truck.

On April 19, 1995, ex-Army soldier and security guard, Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. By tracing the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of a rear axle found in the wreckage, the FBI identified the vehicle as a Ryder Rental Junction City agency truck. Washington Post article authenticates photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs days before the Alfred P. Murrah bombing.

Rudi Dekkers who owned Huffman Aviation, in Venice, Florida supposedly gave flight training to the terrorists (Mohammad Atta et.al.) that allegedly perpetrated 9/11 (False Flag) twin towers attack. The FBI loaded two Ryder trucks with the flight school files and the local investigation files, drove them right onto a C130 military cargo plane at Sarasota airport which flew out with Jeb Bush aboard."

Woodrow Wilson Bridge (over the Potomac, a few days post 9/11), bomb threat involving a Ryder rental truck stopped in the middle of the Wilson Bridge and the driver ran toward the Virginia side (a dud False Flag event or decoy?).

Check out Kirk Imhof, Ryder's former Group Director of Staffing
UNITED STATES MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
First Lieutenant, Executive Officer of Headquarters Company
- Managed 180+ military professionals and supervised 12 offices
- Served as Liaison between Intelligence units and Army and Air Force
- Ensured unit's worldwide readiness and mobility inclusive of training, testing and continuity
Second Lieutenant, Section Chief - Intelligence Production and Analysis
- Supervised 10+ geopolitical analysts
- Produced real-time classified multimedia briefings on global concerns and presented them daily to military and civilian dignitaries
- Selected for a six month Intelligence assignment at Central Command in Panama City, Panama to provide counterinsurgency intelligence support for the on-going El Salvadoran conflict.


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Kiev Chief of Staff: Ukraine's intelligence reports are 90% wrong


Fort Russ
Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:29 UTC
Muzhenko
Viktor Muzhenko, head of the Ukrainian General Staff, has assessed the clearance rate of military and intelligence in the "anti-terrorist operation" in the Donbass. According to his remarks, 90 percent of the information collected on the situation in eastern Ukraine would have to be counted as false.

This perhaps explains assertions of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about the all edged "200,000 Russian soldiers" in the Donbass.

One might think that Viktor Muzhenko's declaration resembled a late admission. It took more than a year took for the head of the General Staff to designate Kiev's accusations against Russia as wrong. "There are intelligence reports and briefings data. Intelligence reports are what we get, and the data are, what the reports confirm" explained Muzhenko, in the best soldierly bureaucratic form, in an interview with the Ukrainian newspaper ZN.UA, and went on:

"Last summer 90 percent of the information through official briefings re the Anti-Terrorist Operation -- was wrong." The head of the General Staff said only five to ten percent of the information received was credible. At the same time Muzhenko accused the self-defense militias in Donbass of "active disinformation tactics."

Comment: Someone please inform the U.S. State Department!

Muzhenko is the guy who admitted early this year that there were no Russian troops in Ukraine: He's also the guy that took Right Sector under the wing of the Ukrainian military.

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People

Vladimir Putin: Nothing staged, just plain old hockey with kids

Associated Press
CBC News
Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:30 UTC
Putin Plays Hockey
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, took part in an exhibition hockey match against student players from the Sirius academy for gifted children at the Shaiba arena in Sochi, one of the hockey venues at the 2014 Olympics. (Alexei Nikolsky/Associated Press)
Russian President Vladimir Putin may be nearing his 63rd birthday, but he can still beat a team of kids in hockey. With the help of some of Russia's most formidable hockey veterans, that is.
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Star of David

Petition to arrest Netanyahu reaches over 100,000 signatures - UK parliament considers debate (don't hold your breath)


RT
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 23:43 UTC
Netanyhu
© Abir Sultan / Reuters Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his smarmy best.
The British parliament will consider a petition on its website seeking the arrest of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for "war crimes" after it reached its target of 100,000 signatures.

"Benjamin Netanyahu is to hold talks in London this September. Under international law he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2000 civilians in 2014," says the petition published by Damian Moran, an anti-Israel activist, on August 7.

Parliament considers all petitions that receive more than 100,000 signatures for a debate.

However the British government had already dismissed the petition to arrest the Israeli PM. "Under UK and international law, visiting heads of foreign governments, such as Prime Minister Netanyahu, have immunity from legal process, and cannot be arrested or detained," it said in a statement.

The government also said that during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 Israel had a right to defend itself by taking proportionate action within the boundaries of the humanitarian law. It also condemned "the terrorist tactics of Hamas who fired rockets on Israel, built extensive tunnels to kidnap and murder, and repeatedly refused to accept ceasefires".

Comment: Of course the British government would dismiss Netanyahu's culpability for war crimes. The same logic would put all of them on trial too.

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Arrow Down

U.S. extends sanctions on Russia 'just because'


RT
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:40 UTC
bombed building east ukraine
© Oleksandr Klymenko / Reuters
Washington has extended its sanctions against Russia, but the US State Department failed to offer specifics of what exactly Moscow did wrong this time. It referred to a "larger picture," which supposedly proves Russia's guilt in destabilizing Ukraine.

On Wednesday, the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) explained that it took action to sanction 29 Russian entities to ensure the "efficacy of existing sanctions... for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine."

Considering that the situation in eastern Ukraine has been unusually calm recently, RT's Gayane Chichakyan asked State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner what Russian violations now warrant such tightening and strengthening of the sanctions list.

Comment: The sanctions have done very little damage to Russia, in fact its economy has remained stable and Russia has cemented bonds with Eurasian countries, while the European economy has suffered by following the dictates of the U.S. It seems they are laboring under the delusion of 'if it doesn't work the first time, try try again'.

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Boat

Paranoid Pentagon closely watching Russian oceanographic 'spy' vessel near Cuba's coast


RT
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:47 UTC
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© sdelanounas.ruThe research ship Yantar (Amber).
A Russian oceanographic research ship commissioned earlier this year has made it to the Caribbean, keeping the Pentagon on its toes. America's intelligence community appears to believe the vessel is collecting data from underwater cables and spying on the US nuclear submarine fleet.

The Yantar (Amber) oceanographic vessel of the Russian Navy - on a long-distance solo voyage across the northern Atlantic, passing Canada, to the islands of the Caribbean - has alarmed Pentagon, which suspects the high-tech ship is collecting intelligence on US nuclear submarines based at Kings Bay, Georgia.

On September 1, according to a blog about underwater military activities called '7 Feet Beneath the Keel', the Yantar's location was reported some 150km north of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
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© Google maps
The Russian ship remains in international waters, with the Pentagon tracking it constantly, according to the Washington Free Beacon (WFB), citing an unnamed official, who maintains the Yantar is equipped with "deep-sea surveillance craft and cable-cutting equipment."

Another senior defense official told Fox News that US oceanographic ships perform exactly the same activities near Russian shores.

"Of course we do. What do you think all those 'oceanographic ships' are doing? Studying whales?" he said.


Comment: More anti-Russian nonsense. Accusing others of what you are doing in order to give what you say credibility is an effective propaganda tactic. This sort of lie is much more believable if some important 'official' confesses to do the same 'spying'.


Comment: See also: The paranoia of the Devil's conscience: Western Cold War ideology against Russia

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Top Secret

Emails show: Food industry enlisted academics in G.M.O. lobbying war

Eric Lipton
New York Times
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 18:32 UTC
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© Daniel Acker/BloombergMonsanto Asgrow brand soybeans. Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, and its industry partners have relied on academics to push their case for genetically modified crops.
At Monsanto, sales of genetically modified seeds were steadily rising. But executives at the company's St. Louis headquarters were privately worried about attacks on the safety of their products.

So Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, and its industry partners retooled their lobbying and public relations strategy to spotlight a rarefied group of advocates: academics, brought in for the gloss of impartiality and weight of authority that come with a professor's pedigree.

"Professors/researchers/scientists have a big white hat in this debate and support in their states, from politicians to producers," Bill Mashek, a vice president at Ketchum, a public relations firm hired by the biotechnology industry, said in an email to a University of Florida professor. "Keep it up!"

And the industry has.

Comment: The biotech industry is desperate...as Dr. Benbrook clearly states 'Monsanto wants to influence the public...but nobody believes them...there is a friggin war going on and everyone is looking to gain as much leverage as they can.' It's not really surprising that Monsanto enlisted academics to push their agenda. they have already 'taken over' regulatory bodies that are supposed to enforce and monitor 'food safety', why not take over university academics as well!
  • Monsanto took over regulatory bodies all over the world to lobby GMO
Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world. Their background is quite controversial - they were continually voted the most hated and most unethical company on Earth for years and years, [even] with stiff competition. They lied about the toxicity of their former products - PCBs, Agent Orange and DDT - and they have unprecedented control around the world over regulatory bodies.

By the way the documents made public from a lawsuit revealed that the overwhelming consensus among the scientists working at the FDA was exactly the opposite of that exposed in the policy. The scientists said GMOs would be dangerous, could create allergies, toxins, and new diseases, and should be tested. Monsanto's takeover essentially of the FDA has been replicated around the world, I've been in 37 countries and I've seen how they "capture" regulators, ministries, departments, etc., and once that happens, they discredit and dismiss any adverse findings about GMOs - they don't even read the dossier. Unfortunately, it's a rubber stamp situation around the world and if you trace it back, it comes down to them doing it, based on Monsanto's own research. We've caught them red-handed, rigging their research to avoid finding problems, and covering up problems when they persist nonetheless.

They have paid an enormous amount of money for campaign contributions and lobbying - a recent article came out - it was $8.7 million last year. They have a very strategic way of infiltrating and influencing, in fact, what the entire biotech industry and Big Agriculture does.


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